Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wet with tears; exhaust with weeping.
  • To bleed, as a tree or plant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To weep much.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English forwepen, equivalent to for- +‎ weep.

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